by MJR | Oct 22, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to...
by MJR | Oct 21, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 The idea of fatherhood isn’t all that favorable in some circles today. Before she became a follower of Christ, Rosaria Butterfield...
by MJR | Oct 18, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. Ephesians 6:1-3 If obedience is at the heart of honoring...
by MJR | Oct 17, 2024 | Genuine Hope
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the...
by MJR | Oct 16, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such...
by MJR | Oct 15, 2024 | Genuine Hope
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands....